I wrote this about “white genocide” rhetoric before the terrorist attack in New Zealand, and I think it holds up. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/adam-serwer-madison-grant-white-nationalism/583258/ …pic.twitter.com/04xHWFXByW
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then the "white races" will be out-competed by the "rising tide of color." It's basically a racist version of a nativist globalization argument, and as such is much more subtle than the "divide up whites into anthropological sub-races" approach.
Separately, Grant's form of interwar racism ("divide up the whites") became less compelling to Americans than Stoddard's biracial ("white vs. colored") approach, after the Great Migration and all that. Grant's is the racial theory of the KKK, Stoddard's is the view of Fox News.
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To put it visually (I once wrote a whole paper on this in grad school, can you tell?), Grant's map of races (left, 1916) looks bizarre today. Stoddard's map (right, 1920) is totally comprehensible. I agree Grant's mindset is getting a grim revival, but Stoddard's never left us.pic.twitter.com/pmIkr75XKv
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Good comparison.
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I always found the idea of "white genocide" confusing. Surely a geneticist can articulate better than I but belief in common ancestry BUT disbelief in that ancestry to create what has already been created without human assistance seems impractical.
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